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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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baton, field marshal, impediments, knapsack, marshal, marshaled, marshaling
«REALLY, adv. Apparently.»
«REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accessible, dissuasion, evasion, evasions, hospitable, infections, persuasion
«RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American politics, loaded, recount, recounted, recounting
«PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abdomen, appareled, black sheep, bright blue, ceremony, dyed, Gha, hideously, omit, presentable, sunset, tails
«REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolution, alderman, franchise, graded, impenitent, maiden, refusal, Refusals, suitor, suitors, tentative
«REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Indian, aversion, constitutional, North American, North American Indian, offend, repartee, retort, retorted
«REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church, Parnell? How needless! --Nick will keep you off the coals And add you to the woes of other souls. --Jomater Abemy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attendant, attendants, desirous, follower, needless, nick, Parnell, re-formation, reformation, The Reformation
«RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame --a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear.Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! --W.J. Candleton»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
harp, inconsiderate, intolerable, leapt, light touch, notoriety, spear, supportable, The Faint, unfriendly
«REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.»
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